Re: on setting up a layout in Pagemaker 7.0

In article <e2kIh.8$d8.7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bob Levine
<robjlevin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Ric Seyler wrote:
> 
> > Being a PageMaker diehard since it was Aldus, how much grief am I
gonna
> > have when I eventually have to go to InDesign in the future?
> 
> Grief? I'd suffer if I ever had to use Pagemaker again.
> 
> As long as you realize it's a different program and don't take the "I 
> did it in Pagemaker this way and that's the way I want to keep doing it"

> attitude, you should love InDesign.

"Love InDesign"?? Maybe, maybe not.

Some things a similar, but others are different, some annoyingly or
unnecessarily too Quark Xpress like.  :o(

I don't know there's any "grief", although you will probably go through
a stage (long or short) of simply giving up or going straight to
PageMaker for urgent work. Then again once you discover how easy PDFs
are to make you may decide that it's not worth using PageMaker when you
know you're going to have to make a PDF in the end.

There is some learning to do, as well as hunting around to find the
particular tool / function you want. You do have to learn to work in a
different manner that's not as free-flowing as in PageMaker.




> > Did I remember reading or hearing there is a "PageMaker
> > Plugin" for InDesign to give it the familiar PageMaker interface?
> 
> The plugins simply added some functionality. They included a data merge 
> and icon bar and bullets/numbering. The full set of plugins was fully 
> integrated into CS2.
> 
> CS3 will be officially announced on March 27.

Announced, yes. ****pping, who knows when.  :o)



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